"Racism" or Hello, I'm Special

So a couple of days ago a native youth was shot by police when he lunged at them with a weapon, which turned out to be a screwdriver. Because of the fact that he was native, this has caused a lot of noise to be made by native groups crying "racism" and "police brutality." They are calling this another J.J. Harper situation. In my opinion, this is a load of crap. First of all the two situations are completely different. J.J. Harper was unfairly targeted by police as he was walking home. This boy was being apprehended for a mugging and was resisting arrest. He had been pepper sprayed multiple times and continued to ignore police warnings to put down his weapon. He lunged at an officer and was shot twice, which ended up killing him. While I acknowledge that his death is a tragedy of sorts, to hear the issue of racism brought up is annoying. Whenever a minority is killed it's always racism, even when circumstances point to another truth. In our country, the native community is quick to fight any perceived injustice, which is a good thing, but sometimes it goes too far and fights for the wrong reasons. In decrying this event as indicative of police racism they are completely ignoring certain key facts.
1) The youth was already a career criminal at 18, having been in and out of jails and youth centres for most of his life. He was not an innocent victim as portrayed.
2) The youth was told to put down his weapon multiple times, he did not. He advanced on an officer of the law in a threatening manner. Police procedure dictates a certain response.
3) The officer was a metis man, not a Caucasian. If there is any racism going on its of the self-hatred type.
4) The youth was shot in the chest because it is standard police procedure, not because the officer wanted to kill him. Some groups are complaining that the boy was not shot in the leg or arm. First of all, it's not that easy to hit such small targets when under pressure. Despite expert training in firearms, it is standard operating procedure to shoot at the largest area, in this case the torso.
5) The youth clearly had no respect for the rule of law or the police. When asked to show ID, he brandished a weapon. When told to comply with the officer's request, he lunged in a threatening manner.
Is there racism in the police force? I'm sure there are trace amounts, but not every case is indicative of a systematic dilemma. People should know better than to attack a cop and should comply with what they ask. When respect and fear for the rule of law is gone, then you've got anarchy. I'm not saying that the boy deserved what happened, but I'm saying that what happened to him was something that he should've feared and therefore done something to prevent.
There are definitely battles to fight and tragedies to avert, but some tragedies are not catastrophes. They are results of one person's poor choices and not some grand conspiracy against a minority group. Give the police enough credit to not go around shooting random natives out of spite. At this point in time, they know enough to follow procedure. No one is going to do something so blatantly racist because they know the consequences.
On a happier note, I finished reading "Hello, I'm special" today and it was an interesting book for the most part. Discussing the issue that individualism is effectively the new conformity and that to try to be special and unique is exactly what the system demands and only serves to make you even more of a conformist, the book had some interesting ideas. I disagreed with the author's view on backyard wrestling but the rest of it was pretty damn good stuff.
I have to go to work now... Ugh!